The Nation - News from Aug. 15, 1988

A dozen people were arrested in New York after a day of peaceful protests and music in a park where police and civilians met in a violent, bloody confrontation a week earlier. More than 50 people were injured in the Tompkins Square Park battle, 14 of them police officers, and nearly 100 charges of police brutality were filed. The latest arrests at the park in the East Village came when a handful of demonstrators turned rowdy several hours after the previous day’s demonstrations and rallies, staged to protest the earlier alleged police violence. Most of those arrested were charged with assault, inciting to riot, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, police said. Four men were arrested at a condominium, which protesters said represented the kind of change that is driving them from their ethnic neighborhood.